Business

The former director of collapsed Cromwell Press has pleaded guilty to false accounting after initially denying the charges against him.

Directors of Eastbourne-based technical services supplier Veritek Global have led a management buyout of the business after securing a combined debt and equity funding package.

Shuttleworth Business Systems has launched what it calls its most innovative MIS yet.

Tall Group secure cheque printing operation Checkprint has reconfigured part of its Leicestershire facility and installed a raft of new equipment.

A Spanish appeals court has backed an earlier ruling that claims of patent infringement brought against Cretaprint are meritless.

Sequana, the French paper group that owns Arjowiggins and Antalis, has reported a sales slump of 9% in the first half of 2013, citing a "sharp decline in demand for printing papers in Europe".

Polestar has renewed its contract to print a range of journals for the British Medical Association.

CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.

Dartford-based direct mail printer Howard Hunt Group has installed a second Xerox iGen4 at its Dartford site and is eyeing an iGen150.

Alpha Media Solutions (AMS), one of the two companies that emerged from the collapse of Scorpio Print Finishing in 2006, has fallen into administration with the loss of all 61 jobs.

Print management firm HH Global has won a three-year contract to provide electronics giant Siemens with global end-to-end print services.

Wren Printed Packaging has fallen into administration, with the business subsequently closed and all staff made redundant.